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Humpday Quotationola!

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Humpday Quotationola!

The usual warning of bodily harm to googleheads....remember the box...yada, yada....

Ok...who said this?

"A tree is our most intimate contact with nature"

Tommy

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I'm guessing any one of three of my childhood acquaintences. Rin Tin Tin. Smokey the Bear. Bucky Beaver.

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#3

Close but no cigar.

All are amazingly good guesses but all equally wrong. But you get a bonus point for livening up my morning. ;-)

Tommy

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My guess would be Tarzan. Second choice would be Paul bunyan.

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#6

Hint

Butterflies

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Re: One of the following:

· T. Roosevelt

· Rachel Carson

· Aldo Leopold

· Gilford Pinchot

Just a guessing here, thanks for the question……..Dale

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Re: Hint

I know now, but I had to Google it;-)

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Re: Oh! UMMM...

there's a typo in my statement, : ' >.... And I've read his book a few times.

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#10

Box off. Hint #2

Slabs

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Oh for Pete's Sake...The Answer

What? You folks just gave up? ;-)

The answer is George Nakashima!

I hope you all are hitting your foreheads and proclaiming "I could have had a V-8"!! ;-)

Tommy

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Re: I think George borrowed it from

Tommy Termite. What else could be more meaningful to a termite than a tree.

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